Beginner's Luck!

Three recipes completed, and all are successful!
The Super Simple Pizza Sauce was zesty and delicious on pita pizzas with either Shredded Rice "cheese" or Mozzarella Cheese. Very easy and really tasty! Recipe made enough for 6 pita pizzas.

Since I had all the ingredients on hand, I went ahead and made the Agave-Dijon Dressing, pg 153 SBK, and wow, is it good! I don't know if I have ever made dressing from scratch, but I will from now on. It was easy and tastes so much better than bottled Honey-Dijon. The SBs recommend it on Spinach Salad, but I had it on romaine.

With two easy recipes under my belt, I decided to make a third. Why not, the boys are asleep in front of the Red Sox game, so what else do I have to do? I chose another recipe simply because I had the ingredients, and my family loves the "regular" variety of Rice Pudding, page 177 SBK.

I was a little worried that mixing brown rice with coconut milk and water would lead to it all burning and mucking up the bottom of my favorite pot. No worries! It took 20 minutes of peeking and giving it a quick stir now and again, and then a full 5 minutes of stirring at the end of the process, but yum-a-licious is worth it. It has a more mild and subtle flavor than store-bought or restaurant rice pudding. You can taste the nuttiness of the brown rice and the spark of the cinnamon. I really like it. Tune in tomorrow to see what the monkey boys think.

I am looking forward to going to my fave healthfood store, Healthy U, to buy some ingredients that I see in many recipes but don't have in my pantry: refined coconut oil, Bragg's Liquid Aminos, and red miso.